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October '06

Dead in the water

Just when I thought things were looking up… I plugged in my USB thumb drive today to format it, and upon ejecting the volume my machine had a kernel panic. Seeing how I cannot power on my machine until I receive a new top case, I’m effectively dead in the water for getting any real [...]


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October '06

Repair Woes

Since I bought my MacBook Pro just a few minutes after The Keynote in January, the experience has been quite a roller-coaster. Prologue It all started with the “Ships February” drama, where Apple pushed the shipping date to the absolute maximum. When waiting for new hardware, especially after paying a handsome sum for it in [...]


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March '06

Screwy MacBook Pro Speaker – REVISITED

It’s actually quite common that laptop speakers are unbalanced, but these ones are really noticeably so (Note: I plan to add graphs for my PowerBook for comparison, but I haven’t had much time to capture measurements — sorry). I hope that folks didn’t take my last MacBook Pro speaker post as dissing the MacBook Pro [...]